I baked an apricot-peach-blackberry clafouti on Monday. The deeply apricoty apricots reminded me just how much I love warm fruit, apricots, and clafouti.
Combined with recent creations of fruit soup, zucchini pancakes and watermelon-feta salad, the clafouti felt like a wondrous rediscovery of seasonal foods, as if I had found something long lost over the sleety winter. They had me thinking, "I should make this more often!" and then, "I can't have this more often. This is only good with
real peaches, with fresh berries, with juicy watermelon, with actual local corn on the cob . . . I don't make zucchini pancakes in the winter because I couldn't find an overgrown zucchini and wouldn't buy it if I could. And, oh yeah, I really need to freeze some pesto."
What foods are summer to you?
Need any reminders to get out there and enjoy summer produce?
Here are a few from me:
Watermelon-feta salad Corn on the cob Grilled apricots Buttermilk berry soup with fresh mint Tomatoes, basil and mozzarella Pesto Clafouti Grilled zucchini Summer squash hash (new from the Mister) Tabbouleh salad Peaches Gazpacho Cucumber raita Salsa Green beans, new potatoes and bacon BLATs (BLTs with avocado) Cobblers, crumbles, buckles and crisps
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